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Mastodon User Count Bot

A bot which posts user statistics to Mastodon.

Dependencies

• Python 2
• gnuplot version 5 or greater
• Mastodon.py: pip install Mastodon.py
• Everything else at the top of usercount.py!

Usage:

1. Edit config.txt to specify the hostname of the Mastodon instance you would like to get data from.
2. Create a file called secrets.txt in the folder secrets/, as follows:

uc_client_id: <your client ID>
uc_client_secret: <your client secret>
uc_access_token: <your access token>

3. Use your favourite scheduling method to set ./usercount.py to run regularly.

Call the script with the --no-upload argument if you don't want to upload anything.

Note: The script will fail to output a graph until you've collected data points that are actually different!